Seminar/Colloquium Archive

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tommaso Pedroni (SISSA)
Title:	Blowing-up the edge: connection formulae and stability chart of the Lamé equation
Date:	Tue, Dec 16, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Gabriel Arenas-Henriquez (Yau Center, Tsinghua)
Title:	TBA
Date:	Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Zhaojie Xu (Southeast University, China)
Title:	Trans-series representation of Hofstadter's butterfly from non-perturbative topological strings
Date:	Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Miguel Montero (IFT, Madrid )
Title:	TBA
Date:	Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Irene Valenzuela (CERN / IFT, Madrid)
Title:	TBA
Date:	Fri, Nov 14, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Arnab Priya Saha (Indian Institute of Science)
Title:	Crossing symmetric dispersion relations in field theory
Date:	Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Qiang Jia (KAIST)
Title:	Discrete Gauge Anomalies and Instantons
Date:	Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tiziano Gaibisso (Imperial College London)
Title:	Supersymmetry for brane diagrams and bow varieties
Date:	Tue, Nov 04, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ramla Abdellatif (Amiens University - IMAR)
Title:	Searching for a $p$-modular Shimura-Langlands correspondence for the $p$-adic metaplectic $\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}_{2}$
Date:	Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jackson Fliss　 (University of Cambridge)
Title:	Minimal areas from entangled matrices
Date:	Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	3451.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marie-Amelie Lawn (Imperial College London)
Title:	Generalized spin structures on homogeneous and cohomogeneity-one manifolds
Date:	Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Travis Schedler (Imperial College London)
Title:	Towards classification of symplectic singularities and their resolutions
Date:	Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Surya Raghavendran (Yale Universitry)
Title:	Twisted D-branes and TQFTs valued in Calabi-Yau categories
Date:	Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3450.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Dongming He (Free University of Brussel)
Title:	Doubly-holographic BCFTs in N=4 SYM
Date:	Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Andrea Brini (University of Sheffield)
Title:	Refined Gromov-Witten invariants
Date:	Tue, Oct 07, 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Felix Thimm (Univ. of British Columbia)
Title:	Factorization of K-theoretic orbifold DT invariants
Date:	Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Adrian Padellaro (Bielefeld University)
Title:	Eigensystems in symmetric group algebras and bases of multi-matrix invariants at finite N
Date:	Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Abhiram M. Kidambi (MPI-MiS)
Title:	Modularity theorems beyond elliptic curves
Date:	Tue, Sep 09, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yefeng Shen (U of Oregon)
Title:	Quantum Spectrum and Gamma structure for standard flips
Date:	Thu, Aug 28, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Takehiko Yasuda (Osaka University)
Title:	Stringy invariants for singularities in positive and mixed characteristics
Date:	Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ki-Hong Lee (Technion Israel Institute of Technolocy)
Title:	Simple Large N SCFTs in 4d and Universality
Date:	Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Simeng Simone Hu (U of Oxford)
Title:	Invariant differential forms on the odd graph complex
Date:	Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Bruno Chiarellotto (U of Padova)
Title:	p-adic differential equations
Date:	Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Massimo Porrati (NYU)
Title:	Local operator algebras of charged states in gauge theory and gravity
Date:	Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3403.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mao Sheng (Tsinghua University)
Title:	Nonlinear Hodge theory in positive characteristic
Date:	Tue, Jul 01, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Guy Shtotland (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Title:	Relative Kazhdan-Lusztig isomorphism
Date:	Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Wenbin Yan (Tsinghua University)
Title:	VOA, Higgs bundle and character variety
Date:	Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3401.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sunil Mukhi (IISER Pune)
Title:	Quasi-characters revisited
Date:	Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	3399.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Patrick Lei (Columbia U)
Title:	Gromov-Witten theory of Calabi-Yau threefolds
Date:	Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Hirotachi Abo (University of idaho)
Title:	An algebro-geometric approach to Nash equilibria
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sebastian Opper (Charles University, Prague)
Title:	Autoequivalences of triangulated categories via Hochschild cohomology
Date:	Thu, Jun 12, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Xingyang Yu (Virginia Tech.)
Title:	Dimensional Deconstruction with Generalized Symmetries
Date:	Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Robert Weston (Heriot Watt University)
Title:	Cyclic Representations of Quantum Affine sl(2) and its Borel Subalgebras at Roots of Unity and Q-operators
Date:	Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marti Rossello (Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica)
Title:	Localization and wall-crossing of giant graviton expansions in AdS5
Date:	Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3387.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yusuke Sato (Osaka Institute of Technology)
Title:	Snake graph and cyclic quotient singularities
Date:	Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yasuaki Gyoda (Nagoya University)
Title:	k-generalized Markov number and snake graph
Date:	Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Renzo Cavalieri (Colorado State University)
Title:	Tropical psi classes and tropicalizations of psi classes
Date:	Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ivan Cherednik (University of North Carolina)
Title:	Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities, Part II
Date:	Thu, May 29, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	This is the second part of his talk, Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities. Part I will take place at 13:30 on May 27 in Seminar Room A.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Mitch Weaver (KAIST)
Title:	Reading between Special Kähler Structures: N =4 sYM
Date:	Tue, May 27, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3333.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ivan Cherednik (University of North Carolina)
Title:	Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities, Part I
Date:	Tue, May 27, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Remarks:	The second part of his talk, Motivic superpolynomials and surface singularities, Part II, will take place at 15:30 on May 29 in Seminar Room A.

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Vicharit Yingcharoenrat (Chulalongkorn U.)
Title:	Beyond Coleman’s Instantons
Date:	Fri, May 16, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ting Xue (University of Melbourne)
Title:	Character sheaves, d-Harish-Chandra series, and affine Springer fibres
Date:	Tue, May 13, 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Kari Vilonen (University of Melbourne)
Title:	Unitary representations of Lie groups and Hodge theory
Date:	Tue, May 13, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sergej Monavari (EPF Lausanne)
Title:	The motive of the Hilbert scheme of points
Date:	Fri, May 02, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Enrique Alvarez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Title:	The cubic action for gravity
Date:	Fri, May 02, 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Yinan Wang (Peking Univ.)
Title:	SymTFT for flavor symmetries
Date:	Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B
Related File:	3350.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Marina Purri Brant Godinho (University of Glasgow)
Title:	Derived symmetries induced by crepant contractions.
Date:	Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Parth Shimpi (University of Glasgow)
Title:	Drifting towards rational curves
Date:	Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sebastian-Philip Harris (DESY)
Title:	Holographic Interfaces in Symmetric Product Orbifolds
Date:	Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3360.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Timothy Logvinenko (Cardiff University)
Title:	The Hochschild homology of a non-commutative symmetric quotient stack
Date:	Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Chenjing Bu
Title:	Intrinsic enumerative geometry
Date:	Tue, Apr 08, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Rene Meyer (U. Würzburg)
Title:	A PT symmetric holographic metal
Date:	Tue, Mar 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3343.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Weiguan Cao (The University of Southern Denmark)
Title:	Duality viewpoint of noninvertible symmetry protected topological phases
Date:	Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Lucien Hennecart
Title:	Cohomological integrality for symmetric quotient stacks
Date:	Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Sheldon Katz
Title:	Gopakumar-Vafa invariants via Wilson loops
Date:	Tue, Mar 04, 2025, 10:00 - 11:00
Place:	Lecture Hall

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Johanna Knapp (Melbourne)
Title:	A non-abelian GLSM for cubics
Date:	Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jaewon Song (KAIST)
Title:	A Family of Vertex Operator Algebras from Argyres-Douglas Theory
Date:	Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room B

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Ciceri Franz (ENS de Lyon)
Title:	Holography for the IKKT matrix model
Date:	Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	3308.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Tianyu YUAN (Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China)
Title:	A Morse A infinity-model for the higher-dimensional Heegaard Floer homology of cotangent fibers
Date:	Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Masataka Watanabe (Nagoya University)
Title:	6D moduli effective action and 2D chiral algebra
Date:	Fri, Jan 10, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony B
Related File:	3302.pdf

MS Seminar (Mathematics - String Theory)

Speaker:	Jonathan Heckman (University of Pennsylvania)
Title:	How to Falsify String Theory at a Collider
Date:	Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Place:	Balcony B
Related File:	3301.pdf